Next j.dee hooked up with David Chackler the president of Avenue Records. “We did some work for War (“Why Can’t We Be Friends”). Chackler also arranged for j.dee and teddy b. to write some music for the Orion film Original Gangsters.

“Consequently I bought myself another horn, and started making noise on it. Next thing that I knew I had a project on my hands. I looked for a place to put it. David (Chackler) said, ‘Bring it on over, I have a smooth jazz label, let’s do it.”

He may describe himself as only having one toe in the funkier waters, but j.dee is one cat who knows how to lay down a good groove.

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August 2007